"My life in Moscow under the sclerotic Brezhnev was a very long and rigorous preparation for the Covid-ridden United States of today. Same drinking, same social distancing from the people you don’t know, same refusal to look into their eyes, same unsmiling faces that remind you to keep a social distance or else. There you were afraid to talk to strangers, because they might be some sorts of KGB informers. Here, you are scared of talking to them because they might be committed Democrats with pronounced Trump Derangement Syndrome, ready to denounce you for a wrongly placed mask or for the less than ecstatic attitude toward Holy Vaccine." - Vladimir Golstein, Facebook, December 13, 2020.